Good v. Farmers Mutual Insurance

The appellants call attention to the fact that a husband of one of the jurors was insured by the Farmers Mutual Insurance Company, one of the respondents, and that five of the jury were policyholders in the same company. We find no serious claim or indication that any juror or the jury as a whole was biased or prejudiced. The rule in this state was stated in Burns v. State, 145 Wis. 373, 128 N. W. 987, that a juror’s incompetency does not exist, necessarily, as a matter of law, but depends upon the trial judge’s determination of fact in view of all the evidence and mental characteristics of…